Question

Is there any way?

I have a <ul> with some <li> elements inside. It’s part of a dropdown menu. Each <li> becomes a box the size of the largest <li> element in the group (the one with the most text inside it).

The problem is I want people to be able to click anywhere inside each <li> box and have the link work, instead of just where the text is. I would like a non javascript solution if possible.

Here’s some sample HTML. The inner <li> elements are the ones with the links.

<li class="parent Glass" style=" float: left;">

Glass
    <ul class="child" style="float: left; position: absolute; z-index: 999; display: none;">
    <li style=" float: left;">
                <a href="http://example.com/path/to/somehwere.html?glass=25">Brown       (13)</a>

    </li>
    <li style=" float: left;">
                <a href="http://example.com/path/to/somehwere.html?glass=112">Crystal       (93)</a>

    </li>
    <li style=" float: left;">
                <a href="http://example.com/path/to/somehwere.html?glass=99">Gray       (1)</a>

    </li>
    <li style=" float: left;">
                <a href="http://example.com/path/to/somehwere.html?glass=42">Latte       (12)</a>

    </li>
    <li style=" float: left;">
                <a href="http://example.com/path/to/somehwere.html?glass=72">White       (15)</a>

    </li>
    </ul>

</li>

Answer 1

You need to add display:block to your <a> tags, then you can set a width and height or padding [on the <a>], if you want to make the clickable region bigger.